The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1887-06-03

Test he first: Their influence on home, II
20, have n home. That wife soon loses her
influence over her husband who nervously
and foolishiy looks upon all evening absence
as an assault on d0mesticity- how are , N
great enterprises Of reform. and art, ana ~
eratllre. and benefcence and public veal 10 De
carried on II every man Is 10 nave ms
world bounded On one side by his front do9r-
s4s,t and on the other side by his back WIN
5oi, t,ioying nothing higher than his own
attic or lower than his own cellar! mat
wife who becomes jealous of her husbands
attention 10 art. or literature, or religion or
rliaritv is breaking her own sceptre OF con
5uyal rower | know an instance where
No thought that her husband was
giving too many nights TO Ohris-
tian service, to charitable service, 70
prayer-meetings, and 10 religious conNeca-
fior She automatically decoyed him away
until now he artenis no church, waits upon
no charitable institution, and IS on RAPID
Tvav TO destruction. his morals gone, ms
money zone. and / fear his soul gone lie.
any Christian wife rejoice when her husband
consscrates evenings TO the service OF human
ity. and Of God or charity, or art, or any
thing elevating.
But let no man sacrifice home life 10 secret
society life, as many do. can point out 70
YOU great many names Of men who are
guilty Of this sacrilege They are as GENIAL
as angels at the society room, and as
uglv as sin at home. They are generous on
all subjects Of wine suppers, yachts and
fast horses. but they are stingy about the
wives dresses and the children's shoes. That
man has made that which might he a health
ful influence, a usurper OF his affections, and
be has married it, and he Is guilty of moral
bigamy. Under this process, the wife, what
ever her features becomes uninteresting
and homeiy. He becomes critical of
her, does not like the dress, does
not like the way she arranges
her hair. is amazed that he ever was so I'M
romantic as 10 offer her hand and heart.
There are secret societies where membership
always involves domestic shipwreck. Tell
me that man has Joined certain kind, and
tell me nothing more about him for ten years,
and viii write his history if he be still alive.
The man IS wine guzzler, his wife
brOken-hearted or prematurely Old, his
fortune gone or reduced, and his
home mere name in directory,
Here are six secular nights in the week.
what shall | do with them = says the father
and the husband Il will give four of these
nights to the improvements and entertainment
OF my family, either at home or in good
neighborhOod l will devote one to chart
table institutions. l will devote one to my
lodge
congratulate YOU. Here IS n man who
saws: "0ut Of the six secular nights of the
week l viii devote five to lodges and clubs
and associations and one to the home, which
night l will spend in sowing like March
sluall, wishing l was out spending it as l
have spent the other five nights That mans
obituary is written Not one out of 10000
that ever gets 50 far on the wrong road
ever stOrs- Gradually his health VIII fail
through late hours, and through too much
stimulants he viii be first-rate prey for cry
spelas and rheumatism of the heart The
doctor coming in will at glance see il IS not
only present disease he must fight. but
years Of fast living. The clergyman, for
the sake of the feelings of the
religious generalitics. The men who got his
Yacht in the eternal rapids will not be at the
obseguies They have pressing engagements
thu lay They will send flowers TO the coffin,
will send their wives to utter words of sym
pathy, but they viii have engagements else
where. They never come. Bring me mallet
and chisel and / will cut on the tombstone
that mans epitsph: Blessed are the dead
VINO die in the Lord No. you say, THAT
would not be appropriate Let me die the
death Of the righteous and let my last end be
like his " No. YOU say, that would not
he appropriate Then give me the mallet
and the chisel and ! will cut an honest cpl
taph; " Here lies the victim Of dissipatins
associations
Another test by which you can find whether
your secrus soci ty is right or wrong is the
effect it has upon your secular occupation.
can understand how through such an institl-
ton a man can reach commercial success. |
know some men have formed their best bust
ness relations through such channel. II the
secret society has advantaged You in an hon
orahle calling II is a good one. But
has YOUR credit failed, Are bargain makers
more anxious how they trust you with bale
of goodsl Have the men whose name were
down in the commercial agency \ I, before
they entered the society, been going down
since in commercial stendingi Then look out.
You and every day know Of commercial
establishments going to ruin through the
social excuses of one or two members their
fortune beaten to death with ball PLAYERS
bat, or cut amidships with the prov Il the
regatta, or going down unler the swift hoofs
Of the fast horses. or drowned in the large DO
tations Of Cognac or Mouon gahela That Sc
cret society was the Lo.h Earn The business
was the Vile de Havre. They struck and the
Vile de Havre went underT1
The third test by which YOU may know
good or lad Is this: What S its effect on YOUR
ssnss OF moral and religious obligntioni Now,
II should take the names Of all the people in
this auGierce this morning and put them
IN a roll. AMI then | should Law that
roll back OF this organ, and a
hundred years from now some one should
take that roll and call it from A to z there
would not one Of YOU answer ! say that any
society that makes me forget that fact is a
bad society. When I 90 10 Chicago 1 am
somewhat perplexed al Buffalo, as | suppose
many travellers arr. as to whether it is
better 10 take the Lake Shore route
Or the Michigan Central. equally expeditions
and equally safe getting TO their destination
= the same time But suppose that l hear
hat on one route the track is torn up, the
pridges are Gown and the switches are un-
ockei, it VIII rot take me a great while to
ieci;le which road To take. Now, there aae
VIC roads in the future-the Christian aid
ne un-I hristlan. the safe and the unsafe. Any
rslItuiion or any association that confuses
NY ideas in regard to that fact is a had insti-
iution and a bad association / had prayers
oefsre ! joined that society. did have them
lfierWard. / attended the house of God be
lore l connected myself with that union, do |
iisent myself from religious influences!
Which would you rather have in your
iand when you come TO die-a pack
II cards or .. Biblel Which would
Tou rather have pressed to your lips in the
losing moment-the cup Of Belshazzarean
Eassail or the chalice Of Christian eommun-
one Who would Won rather have for your
p all earers-the elders OF n Christian church,
1r the companions whose conversation was
'ull Of slang and inuuendo, Who would you
-ather have FOR your eternal companions
hose men who spend their evenings
lerting, gambling, swearing, carousing
and telling vile stories, or your little
,hild. that bright girl whom tine
Lord took Oh, YOU would not have been
lway 50 much nights, would you, if You had
nown she was going away so soon. Dear
ne, your house has never been the same place
since Your wife has never frightened up,
III has never got over It. She never will get
,ser it How long the evenings are with no
me to put to bed, and no ono to whom TO
Ell the beautiful Bible stories.
What pity it IS that you cannot spend
more evenings at home in trying to help her
iear that sorrow. You can never drown that I
,rief in the wine cup. You can never break
way from the little arms that used to be |
lung around your neck when she used to say; |
Papa. do stay with me tonight Do stay /
With ne tonight Nou will never he able TO 1
wipe away from your lips the dying kiss of 1
iour little girl. The fascination Of bad Sc
ret society IS 50 great that sometimes man
las turned his back on his home when his
hill was dying Of scarlet fever. he went
iway- Before he got back at midnight the
YES had been closed, the undertaken
.ad done his work. AMI the wife,
worn out with three weeks watching, lay IN
'onsciotls in the next room. Then the re
urned father comes upstairs, and he sees the
radie gone ana the windows up, and says;
What is the matterf' On the Judgment
Jay he will find out what was the matter.
Oh, man astray God help you ! am going
o make very stout rope. You know that
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